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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!asuvax!asuacad!atjmo
- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 10:15:28 MST
- From: <ATJMO@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <93026.101528ATJMO@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: European food prices?
- References: <0fM8lSy00iV048xlow@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Lines: 14
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- One suggestion is to fill up on "street food," which is typically pretty
- cheap. In Brussels and in Amsterdam you can get large portions of french
- fries with a choice of about a dozen different and yummy sauces on top for
- not much money. In Paris, there are ham & cheese sandwiches called croque
- monsieur and croque madame (which adds a hard-boiled egg). Oslo has some
- wonderful stuff, too -- hot dogs on thin potato pancakes with (believe it
- or not) shrimp salad on top and there are also baked potatoes with stuff
- on top (usually consumed at about 4 am, after one has been out drinking, but
- if you're worried about food prices, then you ay as well forget drinking in
- Norway -- a beer in a bar can cost 10 USD!).Anyway, I've subsisted quite
- well on street food, suplemented by bread and cheese and breakfasts served
- in hostels and pensiones. Oh, and I ALWAYS carry a chocolate bar in my
- pocket -- just in case. And, yes, I agree, nutella is one of the best
- creations of the western world.
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